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== Yocto Project Weekly Status May 28th, 2024 ==
== Yocto Project Status 7 April 2026 ==
Current Dev Position: YP 5.1 M1 <br/>
Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M3<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 5.1 M1 Build 20 May 2024<br/>
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23<br/>


'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
'''Next Team Meetings:'''<br/>
*Bug Triage meeting Thursday May 30th at 7:30 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Bug Triage meeting - Thursday Apr. 9th 7:30am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/454367603?pwd=ZGxoa2ZXL3FkM3Y0bFd5aVpHVVZ6dz09)
*Weekly Engineering Sync Tuesday May 28th at 8 am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Weekly Project Engineering Sync - Tuesday Apr. 7th 8am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/990892712?pwd=cHU1MjhoM2x6ck81bkcrYjRrcmJsUT09)
*Twitch - See https://www.twitch.tv/theyoctojester
*Yocto Project Patch Review - Thursday Apr. 9th 10am GMT and Monday Apr. 13th 9am PDT (https://zoom.us/j/97762397148?pwd=1xk0iC9hp9SjEonaTaONwTb6iWry4Eb.1)
 
'''Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/'''<br/>


'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
'''Key Status/Updates:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0.1 has been released.
*YP 5.3.3 was released.
*We have suspected a performance problem for a while, this has now been identified/confirmed as an issue with hash equivalence. The public server using websockets/SSL has significantly slowed down things, to the point a 2 hour world build is taking 18+ hours. In trying to improve this, we ended up destablising the autobuilders entirely, breaking many builds and halting the patch merging.
*YP 5.0.17 is in QA
The problem is visible both at build initialization time and also at any point it rehashes due to new hash information from the server. We are still trying to work out ways to improve things but there appears to be multiple levels of different problems, including the hashserve client parallelism seeming to have bugs. The issue affects scarthgap as well as master.
*YP 6.0 M3 is the feature freeze for 6.0 which is our next LTS.
*A new gcc 14 compatible version of uninative was released allowing fedora 40 testing. Unfortunately there are issues with build failures on that host that are as yet uninvestigated.
*YP 6.0 M3 is now due to build however there are still key changes missing.  
*The WORKDIR to UNPACKDIR transition has merged and other layers are now working on the updates needed. There appear to be some challenges around go modules in particular which are needing more investigation and development time.
*Issues with pending work needed:
*We aim to build YP 5.1 M1 after the performance issue is addressed and we have stable builds.
**Converting scripts/run-cvecheck to sbom-cve-check
*We were able to merge a chunk of pending patches but things are still processing slowly unfortunately.
**32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
*There are some CVE related announcements which are helpful to us:
**Failure to generate regression reports in release builds (need tags)
**There was a CVE 5.1 Record format announcement with changes that encourage more useful data from our perspective
**Ubuntu 26.04 support (need worker adding for testing)
**CISA announced on linkedin the creation of https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment
*Issues that have patches ready to merge:
**Unfortunately there are reports that the backlog of CVEs without version constraints is growing rapidly
**DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
*There is an open letter the project has created related to the CVE/NVD situation, more information is available here: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/message/1990
**Fixing yocto-check-layer to work with --machines
**Please consider signing this to show support for those changes.
**RHEL 9 xattrs/selinux/tar issue
**Signatures from small businesses/consultancies are as welcome as those from larger organizations as we want to demonstrate the breadth of the need for these changes.
**Splitting wic into an external tool.
*The project is sponsoring Syslinbit to separate out our CVE tooling from the build system into a standalone tool so that it can be used on software manifests of output at a later date.
**RHEL 10/openSUSE Leap 16.0 support
T*he project is in the process of testing a new way of hosting our autobuilder with plans to switch soon if successful. Our existing hardware is past end of life and showing increased hardware failures so is currently down on capacity meaning builds are taking longer than normal, also not helped with the performance issue identfiied above.
*Issues that need investigation
*Further performance graph improvements have merged and the graphs now have links to specific revisions allowing regressions to be much more easily tracked down.
**Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta
*The proposed wic changes will need wic support files to be placed in files/wic within layers going forwards.
*We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic, including the emergence of new issues (newer kernel version?). We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making it into the LTS.
*We are aware of our git hosting giving 502 Bad Gateway errors, this is being investigated
*The CFP for the Yocto Project Workshop at Embedded Recipes 2026 closes today: https://pretalx.com/yocto-embedded-recipes-2026/cfp


'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
'''Ways to contribute:'''<br/>
*As people are likely aware, the project has a number of components which are either unmaintained, or have people with little to no time trying to keep them alive. These components include: devtool, toaster, wic, oeqa, autobuilder, CROPs containers, pseudo and more. Many have open bugs. Help is welcome in trying to better look after these components!
*We have several open issues for pseudo and limited maintainer time to work on them. Help from someone familiar with systems programming in C would be greatly appreciated. https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=661406&priority=High&priority=Medium%2B&product=Pseudo&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
*There are bugs identified as possible for newcomers to the project: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Newcomers
*There are a large number of intermittent failures on our autobuilder, any help with investigating, reproducing or solving these issues would be welcome! https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/abint/
*There are bugs that are currently unassigned for YP 5.1. See: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Bug_Triage#Medium+_5.1_Unassigned_Enhancements/Bugs
*Many recipes in openembedded-core would benefit from a new recipe maintainer. Please look at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc and see if you can adopt any of the unassigned recipes.
*We’d welcome new maintainers for recipes in OE-Core. Please see the list at: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc and discuss with the existing maintainer, or ask on the OE-Core mailing list. We will likely move a chunk of these to “Unassigned” soon to help facilitate this.
*For more ways to contribute, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oxKWxLorfF813h82mK6yKTIHeBp_-9owFuCWbzgjOk/edit?usp=sharing
*Help is very much welcome in trying to resolve our autobuilder intermittent issues. You can see the list of failures we’re continuing to see by searching for the “AB-INT” tag in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=AB-INT.
 
*Help us resolve CVE issues: CVE metrics
'''New to the project?'''<br/>
*We have a growing number of bugs in bugzilla, any help with them is appreciated.
*We have a list of issues we think are good places to start contributing: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=NEWCOMER


'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
'''Tracking Metrics:'''<br/>
*WDD 2772 (last week 2752) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*WDD 2797 (last week 2814) (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/charts/combo.html)
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
*OE-Core/Poky Patch Metrics
**Total patches found: 1121 (last week 1127)
**Total patches found: 1060 (last week 1062)
**Patches in the Pending State: 221 (20%) [last week 221 (20%)]
**Patches in the Pending State: 148 (14%) [last week 148 (14%)]
*https://autobuilder.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/
**https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/patchmetrics/


'''YP 5.1 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
'''YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:'''<br/>
*YP 5.1 M1 Build date 2024-05-20
*YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23
*YP 5.1 M1 Release date 2024-05-31
*YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-04-08
*YP 5.1 M2 Build date 2024-07-08
*YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
*YP 5.1 M2 Release date 2024-07-19
*YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04
*YP 5.1 M3 Build date 2024-08-26
*YP 5.1 M3 Release date 2024-09-06
*YP 5.1 M4 Build date 2024-09-30
*YP 5.1 M4 Release date 2024-10-25


'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
'''Upcoming dot releases:'''<br/>
*YP 5.0.1 is released.
*YP 5.3.3 was released.
*YP 4.0.19 build date 2024-06-03
*YP 5.0.17 is in QA.
*YP 4.0.19 Release date 2024-06-14
*YP 4.0.35
*YP 5.0.2 Build Date 2024-06-24
**Build Date 2026-04-06
*YP 5.0.2 Release Date 2024-07-05
**Release Date 2026-04-22
*YP 4.0.20 Build Date 2024-07-15
*YP 5.3.4
*YP 4.0.20 Release Date 2024-07-26
**Build Date 2026-04-20
*YP 5.0.3 Build Date 2024-08-12
**Release Date 2026-05-06
*YP 5.0.3 Release Date 2024-08-23
*For future release dates, see https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Release_calendar
*YP 4.0.21 Build Date 2024-09-09
*YP 4.0.21 Release Date 2024-09-20
*YP 5.0.4 Build Date 2024-09-23
*YP 5.0.4 Release Date 2024-10-04
*YP 4.0.22 Build Date 2024-10-14
*YP 4.0.22 Release Date 2024-10-25
*YP 5.0.5 Build Date 2024-11-11
*YP 5.0.5 Release Date 2024-11-22
*YP 4.0.23 Build Date 2024-11-18
*YP 4.0.23 Release Date 2024-11-29


'''The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:'''<br/>
'''The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:'''<br/>
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== Archives ==
== Archives ==
*[[2026 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2025 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2024 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]
*[[2023 Yocto Project Weekly Status Archive]]

Latest revision as of 14:44, 7 April 2026

Yocto Project Status 7 April 2026

Current Dev Position: YP 6.0 M3
Next Deadline: YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23

Next Team Meetings:

Project data dashboard: https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org/

Key Status/Updates:

  • YP 5.3.3 was released.
  • YP 5.0.17 is in QA
  • YP 6.0 M3 is the feature freeze for 6.0 which is our next LTS.
  • YP 6.0 M3 is now due to build however there are still key changes missing.
  • Issues with pending work needed:
    • Converting scripts/run-cvecheck to sbom-cve-check
    • 32bit x86 kvm seemingly broken with certain CPU features (#16074)
    • Failure to generate regression reports in release builds (need tags)
    • Ubuntu 26.04 support (need worker adding for testing)
  • Issues that have patches ready to merge:
    • DISTRO_FEATURES defaults improvements.
    • Fixing yocto-check-layer to work with --machines
    • RHEL 9 xattrs/selinux/tar issue
    • Splitting wic into an external tool.
    • RHEL 10/openSUSE Leap 16.0 support
  • Issues that need investigation
    • Reports of pseudo errors on Fedora 44 beta
  • The proposed wic changes will need wic support files to be placed in files/wic within layers going forwards.
  • We’re working through the backlog of patches and intermittent build failures are still problematic, including the emergence of new issues (newer kernel version?). We continue to struggle for bandwidth for changes needing in depth review/feedback. This could impact features making it into the LTS.
  • We are aware of our git hosting giving 502 Bad Gateway errors, this is being investigated
  • The CFP for the Yocto Project Workshop at Embedded Recipes 2026 closes today: https://pretalx.com/yocto-embedded-recipes-2026/cfp

Ways to contribute:

New to the project?

Tracking Metrics:

YP 6.0 Milestone Dates:

  • YP 6.0 M3 Build Date 2026-03-23
  • YP 6.0 M3 Release Date 2026-04-08
  • YP 6.0 M4 Build Date 2026-04-13
  • YP 6.0 M4 Release Date 2026-05-04

Upcoming dot releases:

The Yocto Project’s technical governance is through its Technical Steering Committee, more information is available at:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TSC

Archives

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